Finalized wrote:Personally I don't support this.
There are many groups of users on CS who participate in projects to delete pets that they are wanting to become rare, or overpopulating CS. They do this so that the rarity tag will eventually become one tag rarer than it was previously. The deleting button causing "harm" is just like hoarders who don't dare trade off their dozens of variety labeled pets. What are the chances of a massive hoarder/pet collector trading off their favorite valuable hoards versus users deleting pets? Either way, at some point, they will be in circulation again. Whether it be through the hoarder quitting, getting banned, trading, or simply just gifting. This also follows with the pets that were deleted. December 18th event will soon then get those pets back into circulation.
As for the argument regarding people trading their favorite Dog away to someone, and having them delete it, keep in mind that once you trade it off it is no longer in your control. You have no right whatsoever to harass someone for deleting a pet they were given, or even traded by you.
The 18th only aims to give rares, most pets on CS are not rares. I don't support hoarding either (unless they're items that are actually used), especially of high-demand pets. Though I understand why some people do it, I do not understand all of them, and I definitely don't understand the need to delete pets.
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Also, about the pet population, the deleting pet thing won't work, like other people said above. As well as this, there are more people joining CS very day, and those pets may be wanted by them as well! I honestly do not see many OMGSC or old commons/uncommons, though seeing newer ones makes a lot of sense as they become old, go up in worth, and are traded away/hoarded/lost due to people liking the pets, or leaving the site without giving out anything.